Element 3D V2 Official Release Date!

November 17th, 2014

Element 3D V2 will be available in 2 weeks on Dec 2!

Yeah! I know I'm 2 days pastmy November goal but we are really happy with the progressandwe needed the extra timetoget everything dialed in! This update is insane!

What can I say, we like to push the limits of technology and features, but at the end of the day it is important that we release a product that is high quality!

Stay tuned for even more announcements as wereveal otherbigfeatures!
(and you'll see why things took a little longer!)

Additional ProductAnnouncements:
We are also excited to announce the all newPro Shaders 2! Now with massive 2K Maps and physical shaders plus the new Motion Design 2 model packthat was designed for Element 3D V2

If you haven't watched our first look video, check it out Now!

In the mean time:

Make sure your Graphics card driver is up to date!
Maybe check out anew graphics cards to get the most out of E3D V2
Think of all the cool things you will be able to create with V2!

PS: We are still tweaking the websiteand hope to have it dialed in this week too!

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

11 years ago

148 Comments

pcmate

8 years ago

Wow. I'm impressed

David

9 years ago

I know copatible graphic card for element 3D 1 and 2, but please help me to check Element 3D work on Gigabyte GT420 or Gigabyte GT. Im worry it not work on my computer.

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10 years ago

What happen ANDREW KRAMER we are waiting for your new tutorial ?
come fast.

Thankyou

Richard

10 years ago

I want to buy it, but Macbook Air's graphic card doesn't meet the minimum requirements. It would be the happiest day of my life if Mr.Andrew made E3D v2 available for Intel HD graphics 5000. Definitely gonna buy in an instant!!!

caramida aparenta

10 years ago

E3D V2 it's the best plugin for video design and the price is very low. I love't.

Rinaldo

10 years ago

Hey Guys, i just created a VTOL similar to the one you saw in the Technical Details Clip. So there is that main body, then the rotating engines left and right (x-axis only) and the rotors connected to the Engines. If i set the rotors to aux animation group3 and the engines to group2, they have a totally different anchor point and won't work together anymore, how can i fix that.

Charlie

11 years ago

Custom texture maps not showing in export - anyone else experiencing this?

Patrick

11 years ago

Just got the upgrade... WOW!!! What an improvement so far! So many more options, and the so fast!! Thank you everybody at VCP for another amazing product!

Paul Pratt

11 years ago

Re: Element 3d V2
Hi Andrew,
As you promise. Thanks to you all Pixle gods of the (VCP) cyberspace. Fantastic job, great product, responsive plug-ins, and the most important, incredible quality as well performance of the product from you and your team.
Thank you, your team and the incredible graphic???s witchcraft .

Kamwaka Andrew

11 years ago

I know it will be good and easy to use it

Anthony Cupo

11 years ago

If folks don't make back the purchase price with their first project, something is wrong. I don't mean me of course... I'm just going to use this to make a cute christmas cards out of 3D snowflakes... I mean other people!

Seriously Andrew, the quality and capabilities of this release numbs my mind. (See above comment.) Thanks again for helping me pay off my house.

11 years ago

...ditto. I'm all ready to play with V2 on D2. Is it going to be released today?
Got a room full of curious and hungry designers chomping at their workstations to take her for a spin.

Randy MacDonld

11 years ago

...it's Dec 2...so where can you download V@...Im confused here ????
R

Hamid

11 years ago

And past lunch time.....

WILLIAMS

11 years ago

TODAY IS 2ND OF DECEMBER ,2014

Steven Jenkins

11 years ago

So, are we talking 12 am December 2, or sometime during the day? Getting a little antsy here!

John

11 years ago

Will element 3d v2 support more than 10 custom textures created in AE?

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11 years ago

Will objects generated using the new element cast shadows from after effect lights?

nathan

11 years ago

Hey, I was wondering is V2 of element going to be a free upgrade like V1.6 or will we have to buy the upgrade. and if not and V2 is free as an upgrade can pro shaders V1 still work or will we need to upgrade that as well.

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

Element 3D is all new but we will have discount for V1 customers. Pro Shaders 2 and Motion Design 2 are brand new products and not an update to any previous product.

wes

11 years ago

So excited for the 2nd generation element 3d. Also, Andrew - pretty sure Wal-Mart is using element 3D. You know you've made it big when Wal-Mart uses your software.

Christian Michael

11 years ago

Nice camera moves.

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/104794820

stuco36

11 years ago

I am keeping this project to see if V2 will be able to make it look any better. Especially for the shadows:

http://vimeo.com/111552133

Christian Michael

11 years ago

That last comment was to Stuco36. the site pasted the reply in the wrong place

Christian Michael

11 years ago

Well sh*t!

I just woke from a dream where you had just posted a tutorial for the new interface for E3D V2. it was 90 minutes long the opening screen shot was a brass tardis looking thing. I was running around trying to find the charger for my laptop so i could sit and watch the tutorial. Such a stupid dream......I dont own a laptop!

Now I'm wide awake at 4.35 am. Thanks Kramer -_-

Christian Micheal
https://vimeo.com/104794820

oras

11 years ago

hi Andrew greetings from malaysia, great job man, just want to know if there will be some additional default models coming with version 2?

cfs

11 years ago

would it be possible to include a normalmap filter effect, which allow user to generate their own animated normal maps ? please

John

11 years ago

Will objects generated using the new element cast shadows from after effect lights? This would change my world

George

11 years ago

maybe watched the posted videos?!?!

Wayne Heywood

11 years ago

I can't wait for Andrew to announce the work they've done with team Oculus and the new Ocugloves in order to enable the consumer to sculpt their models INSIDE Element 3D

Am I jumping the gun here? Is that news reserved for E3Dv3?

Richard

11 years ago

Ya , think you jumped the gun by about 20 years there. If only though.

Viggo

11 years ago

Videocopilot should really profit on all those people eager to get their little greedy hands on version2. A service that will freeze people down in kryonic coma until version2 is relased. Then they dont have to wait. The unfreeze will be on December 2. And because of the resting they will be able to work in Element 3D V2 in 4 days before needing any sleep. Alternatively if the wyining, moaning, yelling and weeping continues on this Blog about the upgrade price beeing more than 1 dollar - i recommend that version2 be postponed til midsummer 2015. If moaning continues - please Copilot - considder a release date around christmas 2015.

David

11 years ago

Andrew: Do I need a computer to run ver2 of Element? Will there be a disco... sö-<390¤%)%E#f, sorry a precomped shockwave just hit me!
No further questions!

VFXGUY

11 years ago

Well, the sales ads are upon me and I am trying to figure out how much money to save out of my weekend shopping for Element V2. Can we please, please, please get the pricing information? This is getting beyond frustrating.

Kimgryun

11 years ago

If i am user of element3D V1 or student, Can i get some discount?

11 years ago

Hi Andrew What is a deal with Videocopilot.com ? it will redirect me to they web page even when I type Videocopilot.net I never have clue that they exist until recently when Im getting redirected from your Web page.

Wayne Heywood

11 years ago

They don't exist, and if that actually happened to you, and you actually WENT to that location, then... YOU KNOW they don't exist. Conclusion: You are a spammer who is affiliated with 'them'... We don't need your type round here... Sling it!

Take the Hindmost

11 years ago

Sounds like a wretched domain name sitter??
That still goes on?
evil, pure evil....

ERICK

11 years ago

Awesome ! I can't wait to have it.

Paul Pratt

11 years ago

Hi Andrew and crew!
Beforehand, thanks for all the fantastic work you do. You and your crew have a great thanksgiving and as far as I'm concerned I'll wait for your new amazing product Dec 2. Wait is worth the time.
You have a customer for life.
Thanks!!!!
prattpaul688@hotmail.com

JIMMY NEMESIS

11 years ago

would be my pleasure to shake your hand mr. AK ! from Montreal ! followed since O.F and A.Essential , way back ! amazing what you have accomplish ,specially with E3D , now can't wait for E3Dv2

Harlem

11 years ago

Hi Andrew,

Will i have the same perfomances if i want to stay on OSX 10.9.5 for the moment?

Nick

11 years ago

Hi guys I could use some help. I am inexperienced with Element 3D and After Effects and I am having a rendering problem. When I first got After Effects and Element the rendering happened in real time. However, one day I received a message about my graphics card having some sort of problem and now the rendering is very lagged. This can be noticed especially when moving the camera in relation to an Element 3D element but also just to a normal composition that is not using 3D compositing in After Effects. Any suggestions how to fix this and does anyone have any input regarding this?

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 610M Graphics Card. I think this is strong enough to run the two programs but after the problem message I am not sure. Could this even be the problem for my rendering problems? I don't know how to check the Graphics Card so if you know any information on this too that would be great. Thanks for your help.

Amstane

11 years ago

Dec 2 is my birthday, what a wonderful gift andrew!

Nathaniel Diaz-Rua

11 years ago

Yes! I logged on to post this:

Andrew, where is it?!!!!!

I just saw the solid release date and I am ecstatic! I know everyone else is with me and feeling like kids on Christmas day!

Honey, I know what I want for Christmas!!!!! Hehehehehe

Robinson

11 years ago

I'm really very excited about this!

I'm working on 2 new projects now that I'm sure will use many, if not all the new V2 features! In fact, I can't remember even 1 work I didn't use E3D since its launch, no, really!

Hope you make many bundle options too, or a way to combine products to get a discount, because now I'm ready to buy the "Metropolitan" pack for this project and for sure will get Pro Shaders V2 too.

Steffen

11 years ago

could run well on my system
GTX 980
core i7 4790K
16GB Ram
Windows 64 Pro

Samuel

11 years ago

I am using a 2012 MacBook Pro 15 Retina with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1Gb graphics card. Would Element 3D V2 be able to run on that?

John

11 years ago

Thanks for the update, VC gurus! We're all sitting on the edge of our seats here, but taking the extra time to ensure a great product is totally okay. Can't wait to be rocking the V2.

stuco36

11 years ago

Hi Guys, I recently purchased a Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 780 6008MHz Graphics Card - 3GB. It says it's openGL and not openCL...would this still work to get the ray tracing and shadows on V2 or do I need to send this back ASAP and get a new card?

Many Thanks.

pspa

11 years ago

It will work, this card is in the GPU support list for the old Element and it is a high-end one, so nothing to worry about, IMO. Honestly, I'm nore interested whether Element v2 will support Maxwell GPUs (GTX 9XX and 750Ti).

Nikolaj

11 years ago

Yes it will work.
In general all newer Nvidia cards and AMD cards with 1 GB of memory or nore will likely work.
How well it works will depend a lot on memory if you make large videos, 1080P or 4K, or using big textures.

The newer the card is, the faster it will do the renderings.

If you can already use the card with Element 1.6, it will also work with 2.0.

I believe there is a link on this website somewhere that tells exactly which cards are supported.
Maybe Andrew should make it a sticky, since there are a lot of persons asking if their cards will work

Tim

11 years ago

I'm sure it will work fine, I'm running a GTX 660 and I've every faith I'll be able to run Element V2 without upgrading

stuco36

11 years ago

Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback. Here's hoping! I'm not sure what the difference is between openGL and openCL, but obviously there is a difference somewhere. Anyway, like others have said here already...it's definitely worth the wait

wes

11 years ago

I have the same card. It's going to run everything like a champ. The card is still in the top 10 fastest video card in regard to benchmark speed. Unless it burns out you wont need to upgrade for another couple of years.

stuco36

11 years ago

Hi Wes, thanks, that's good to hear! Everything in After Effects so far seems to be running faster, it's premiere at the moment where I am not seeing much difference. In fact a few things have slowed down. Yellow lines are now appearing in the timeline instead of red and get stuttering playback. I shall google away though and try figuring it out. BUT back to the main point...I am glad to hear it will work for E3D V2.

stuco36

11 years ago

Hi Wes, that is good to hear, thank you for that. I have definitely noticed a boost in performance with after effects. It's premiere that doesnt seem to like the card. I keep getting yellow lines on to the top of the timeline when they used to be red now. Playback is stuttering. But I shall google it till I find the explanation! Thanks again for letting me know about the graphics card!

stuco36

11 years ago

Trevor

11 years ago

I just bought Element (v1.6) at the end of October. Is there going to be a price discount for v2 for people who already own a previous edition? I'd hate to think that I could have gotten v2 if I had waited 33 days.

Lars Richter

11 years ago

bro this is mentioned like 100 times, even in the v2 preview video...

yes there will be an upgrade path so don't worry and be happy.

Trevor

11 years ago

Lars, I hadn't seen the video yet. I'm hip deep in my 3D thesis, cash is tight and Element is a vital part of it.

Ø¢Ù…ÙˆØ²Ø´ 3d max

11 years ago

thanck you

very very goood

Ronam Bonfim

11 years ago

PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY!!!!! I was not so excited since Atari console lauch!

Ronam Bonfim

11 years ago

PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY!!!!! I was not so excited since Atari console lauch!

Mev

11 years ago

Keen to hear about pricing and upgrade paths!

Leon

11 years ago

Anyone remember the classic horror film Night of the Creeps? Well I would like to quote a line from the movie. Andrew.... you have us "screaming like bandshee's!" Haha

Sean

11 years ago

I'm sure it will be woth the wait Andrew. Thanks for taking the extra time to get it just right. I didn't see the "Rig" button in the demo, so I hope and I'm sure it supports rigged models such as Flight Kit. Regards, a loyal VCP fan !

Willy Pokrbahtm

11 years ago

Andrew, why are there so many foreigners on this site?

chir

11 years ago

it good that u are delaying to give us the best you have and we can take good i think you should give a speech to ubisoft just saying andrew u and ur crew are just god for ae thx for the effort man

Hris

11 years ago

I showed "first look video" in my company. 5 persons has some questions "how it's possible to render 3D in realtime with these outstading quality?! "

They are architects, but time to time in my company we have to prepare something like a "logo" or "titles" for presentation, and Element 3D 1.6.2 is not sleeping in my machine, is hard working. And as i said before - personally i bought Element 3D too. I'm so excited to buy upgrade!!! I only wait for prices.

Prince Zain

11 years ago

Hey Andrew! Thank you so much for everything. I have been a user of VC Products for a long time and finally after something I created out of the blue turned out so good, I'm here to say my thanks.

This was an assignment for class, yes *sigh* class, for which we had to create a Photo Collage of 3 or more photos together. I took my own photo, and created the other photos and merged them together. Took it a bit too far, and I can't stop smiling since I've seen the final outcome. So happy right now!

Link: http://princezain.net/the_devil_maro_hd_wallpaper.jpg
-- feel free to use it as a wallpaper --

Used Optical Flares, Element 3D v1.6, Metropolitan Pack along with the Futuristic Buildings free pack, and a lot of color correction in After Effects and main collage was created in Photoshop.

Thanks!
And I'll see you on Dec 2nd, with my CC # in hand!

Miika

11 years ago

Hopefully there will be an option to change texture mapping per material, not only per object like its now.

Plicha

11 years ago

Good point!

Amin

11 years ago

Is there going to be an upgrade if we already own V1?

Tobias

11 years ago

Yes

LordEdington

11 years ago

Yes, but it's not free.

Take_the_Hindmost

11 years ago

Element 3D is a great product. Really amazing. Can't wait to see V2.

It is significantly under-priced, however. I think V2 should be at least a $1,000 per license.
(that way not everyone will have it heheehe)

Krutov

11 years ago

If so, you gonna end up with alot of fishermen in the bay-area.
I think the community is for everybody and the pricing will be for everybody (almost). This one gonna cost, but erase Andrew Kramer and the Videocopilot team and you would be stuck with almost nothing. Let?s all support Videocopilot!

Tom

11 years ago

AAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

CAN'T....
CONTAIN...
EXCITEMENT!!!

VC you are nerd porn messiahs! Well worth waiting a few more days for this release. Think I'm gonna cry....

Warren

11 years ago

Barbaric YAWP coming on! It's as if your creator announced, hey, we're coming out with Faces v2. Faces? They made them better? No zits? Blemish camo. beard length automation. better eyes for seeing underwater- salt, fresh, swimming pool. etc. etc. is it too much? sorry. Yawp overheating.

Plicha

11 years ago

Regarding Pro Shaders 2 I'm just wondering, all those new features like shadows, dynamic reflections, physical shaders etc. how would glass material with the reflections look like...so curious!

brian

11 years ago

Andrew you are working on element can you fix a thing in element??When i open my project and i have alot of element layers so instead of screen flashing constantly before opening can you put a loading bar box instead which displays that element is loading project please wait....?I am using Nvidia GTX 680 and drivers are updated but ever since i started using element i always thought that maybe a message box pop-up for loading would be very cool and will help people know that your pc is not freezing it's element loading the layers and project you know what i mean.

Andy

11 years ago

The flashing comes from AE. There is nothing Video Copilot can do about it. That is your video card loading the image, and elements in it. It can't be changed, but by Adobe.

brian

11 years ago

@Andy Really??I thought that was just me having the flashing of AE window,what i meant was that they are working on this massive plugin and they can't just put one loading box???I think VC can do this,just a small thing to polish the element i mean we want this to be a prefect and awesome plugin so it would look very cool if VC can integrate a loading box.

brian

11 years ago

@Andy Thanks for answering and clearing things up i appreciate that.

John

11 years ago

Brian, install something like iStat Menus or any other app that shows you your CPU/GPU activity. If those are running hot, then Element hasn't crashed and is still working to load. Large models can hang the system and make it feel like it may have stalled. Also, try "flattening" out your objects into one mesh layer. That will double or triple the speed of your loads.

brian

11 years ago

@John GPU runs at 70% usage and temperature i checked was at 62 'C which is very normal but i will definitely try the one mesh layer thing.Hopefully most of the performance issues will get solved in V2.Thanks for your reply.

FLiv games

11 years ago

Love it, can't wait sir.

Jogos De Frozen

11 years ago

thanks for your post, i love it very much, because i usually wath 3d film

fliv

11 years ago

thanks you , it is very nice

RICHIEPIC

11 years ago

Let me quote Morpheus when he saw Neo: "At last!"

))

Demone

11 years ago

Hi Andrew, quick question... Will there be a Christmas sale, or holiday discount????

LordEdington

11 years ago

They usually have some kind of Black Friday/Thanksgiving type sale. Might have been a small contributing factor why they're waiting until December... so they don't have to include V2 in the sale!

aryan sharma

11 years ago

which graphic card use to work element 3D, there is problem to work/ please help

Elizabeth

11 years ago

Love element but not an expert, but like to learn and your training helps.
Will the motion design 2 will work with the Element version 1.6. in case my tiny almost none budget can't afford all or some): Also can you give us some good time for low price in case Christmas bring special presents/ or money so we can have it later but not to far, specially if we bought it before.
By the way - Thanks for all you do and the trainings for free.(:

Clayton Knapp

11 years ago

Is there going to be an upgrade if we already own V1?

stev

11 years ago

Nice to see the new Pro-Shaders2 pack with physical shaders. Will there be physical-shader updates to any previous products? Metropolitan, AirStrike and Pro-Shaders seem like likely candidates. (Assume they would be paid updates.)

A.C. Rusinov

11 years ago

Hello, Andrew, thanks for answering the last time. I was wondering, is there going to be a version for CS3? I know it's not a 64 bit system and the architectures are completely different but... I can't afford CS5-6 right now.

11 years ago

Annnnddd go ahead and just take my money, you can have it.

Hris

11 years ago

I hope that upgrade from 1.6.2 will cost something around 150$. I don't want it for free

And i hope Proshaders V2 will be a little bit cheaper (upgrade option) - maybe 80-90$ ? It's my own estimation

My GTX 580 3 GB is waiting for new challanges

Greetings!

Nicolini Media LLC

11 years ago

VCP has the best stuff for the least amount of money.

Altamiradora

11 years ago

I'll believe it when I see it !

11 years ago

In terms of delay of release, something for users to consider: various libraries and technologies require licensing for distribution and resale. Generally, in business discounts are given after an estimation by the supplier of the technology: the quantity of sales predicted.

If multiple technologies are involved, then when all is said and done, those costs will be carried over to the user of the end product.

If for example, the V2 release information was the beginning of a count and estimate of the potential volume of sales predicted, then the longer information is gathered, the higher the number of interested users becomes apparent.

The greater the volume of licenses, allows for VCP to negotiate (on your behalf) a reduction of the license cost per distribution of the software, and reduces YOUR price for V2.

As an ecosystem, VCP services the providers of the operating systems your computers run on, the manufactures of the CPUs, and the manufacturers of the GPUs you use.

In addition, VCP services the authors of the software technology that accelerates your CPUs and GPUs.

In addition to that, VCP puts to use and supports the efforts of countless individuals who have contributed to open source projects such as OpenGL and OpenCL.

Further, VCP supports Adobe by reinforcing its place in the market and bringing new users to its platform and allowing creativity to be impinged by say; the abandonment of the AE platform by Adobe.

Before you ask for more; also remember that you are free consider what you have already been given.

Your support, encouragement and giving to others will always yield you greater returns than other means.

here in expression form:

while(giving>receiving){}; -->> infinite loop

Brad

11 years ago

Looks fantastic, I can hardly wait. Christmas is coming early!

Hris

11 years ago

Knowledge about a prices will be nice, because i'm preparing to buy new 3d renderer CORONA. But if 2 Dec is Element 3D V2 release date, i have to wait few days to decide what i should to buy first in next months - CORONA renderer or Element 3D V2 (i have 1.6.2). Well, Sir Kramer, World is waiting for prices for new licenses and upgrades

And thank You for Your hard work for our community. Element 3D V1.6.2 is worth every dollar which I payed for it

JMS

11 years ago

CORONA is free...

Dave Morgan

11 years ago

I like you Andrew and I LOVE your products, 'sigh'... just please, please put the sodding price up and please stop being forthcoming about this.

Some of us that own businesses need to budget for this sort of thing especially if you have 7 guys (licences) on salary working for you.

Kyan

11 years ago

Released on my birthday, nice!

Steven Jenkins

11 years ago

More teaser videos please? I'd love to see stuff about you new packs too! Also hoping for a bundle deal for an E3D V2 upgrade plus new packs.

mike

11 years ago

is this a free update?

Jack

11 years ago

No man, it's way too big for that. Watch the release video as you will see...But I'm sure it will very reasonably priced as VideoCopilot always is. Happy to pay.

Ben Gregoire

11 years ago

Sooooooooo excited for this!
Can't wait!

Thanks Andrew!

Chaba

11 years ago

Can you up "font-weight" in comments from 300 to 400 or 500?
Now it is difficult to read and not comfortable..
Just see the difference.
http://cs540109.vk.me/c619725/v619725717/12a95/YjlqN3S3gcQ.jpg

Tiago

11 years ago

my daughter's b-day! dad gets a present too!

BRIAN

11 years ago

In your new site,the tutorials (videos in general) are not playing in the Iphone(safari and google chrome)...Do you intend do fix this or it will keep this way?

Austen

11 years ago

Will there be wood shaders?
We miss that hard in proshaders 1

Micha?

11 years ago

Or Planet & Universe shader

Cammon

11 years ago

Love it, can't wait sir.

MrAurora

11 years ago

Great ! So what you are really saying is there is plenty of time for feature requests an you are looking for idea, right Andrew ??

I do have a request - maybe for a future release. I would really prefer to double click on a model in the UI in order to add it. The single click drives me nuts to be honest. I end up accedently adding model when scrolling or just trying to look at the thumbnail. Any chance you guys could all that as a preference if not the default ? Either way, i'm excited for the release and will be a day-0 purchaser. Thanks and forgive any typos - typing from my phone in a tint lil window

Richard

11 years ago

First it was november, now, december, then it will be january. then Feb

Adam

11 years ago

SOOO Excited! Especially for the new auxiliary channels and cast shadows! Thanks for continuing to make Element 3D awesome-er... Hoping there would be an upgrade path for Pro Shaders and Motion Design as well, but I can see why those could just be considered stand alone purchases.

Dan Murray

11 years ago

Really looking forward to this upgrade! For those of us with 1.0 versions of Motion Design, Jetstrike, Pro Shader and Metropolitan, will these all work with Elements 3D 2.0. I haven't seen a pricing guideline for any of these. How will that work? Will there be some sort of bundled pricing to upgrade everything? (as long as it's reasonable... I don't want to pay full price for everything again!)

Joshua

11 years ago

It would be awesome if V2 could have a way to save custom layouts.. not a huge issue, but it would be great for dual monitor setups!

Regardless.. looking forward to the new release!

Ali

11 years ago

Do you offer helicopter model 3d ?

Haji

11 years ago

No. I think they might offer a flying carpet model for you.

kkehoe5

11 years ago

If the price isn't right to upgrade just yet, will Pro Shaders V2 or Motion Design 2 work in Element V1?

11 years ago

Pro Shaders V2 work Element 3D v1,
Motion Design 2 not working Element V2

Kaleb Kendall

11 years ago

Version 2 is going to be amazing! I purchased Element 3D on November 1st, I hope there will be a decent upgrade path to upgrade to V2. Can't wait, thanks sir!

Black

11 years ago

Hey Andrew,
I will buy the currency of the company. But the price is still not clear. Please can you explain the price.

theExile

11 years ago

lol m8 seriously?

LordEdington

11 years ago

Will Pro Shaders V1 work in Element V2?

Bhobindra poudel

11 years ago

100% Work Pro Shaders V1 in Element V2.0

amin

11 years ago

wow andrew
thanks a lot

Stian

11 years ago

Kramer! This is super awesome, but a potential problem is. For us who work with this fulltime, it would be great to have this to play around with at home as well and not only during working hours.

Are you guys open to creating a floating license solution?

Slogan

11 years ago

If I remember rightly with all Copilot products you get 2 installs one for home one for work?.It used to be that way unless that has now changed

Luis Martin

11 years ago

Actually Slogan is right!! I recently bought the Heat Distortion Plugin and Installed it in two computers, one at home and the other one is at work. regardless that both computers are mine.

Harry Sandhu

11 years ago

How Is My Fire + Hologram Effect in this Video Friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPG9WOKSfTk

Roland

11 years ago

What a nice Christmas present

Would it be possible to get a list of compatible graphic cards upfront?
Thanks!

Scott

11 years ago

Get IN! Really looking forward to using this puppy.

Puchka

11 years ago

Thank you Andrew. I love you!

Ali Rezaei

11 years ago

Hi Mr.Kramer

I have a question. Is 970 & 980GTX compatible with E3d V2?
Many Thanx

Liam Weinbrenner

11 years ago

Nice!!!!!!!!! but dec 2nd isn't mid-nov ? But its nice.. Cant wait for it.

20TwentyVizion

11 years ago

Hey VCP team. I definitely can't wait for V2 to come out. But I'm just letting you know how much we, in the VFX Community, truly appreciate ALL of the work that you all do. We often see the end result, and it makes it easy for things to be taken for granted... But many of us see the hard work that goes into this. All-in-all, thank you.

11 years ago

Im wondering how will systems cope with all this downloading on 02 December ? Hope we don't crush VC webpage down.

play_edu

11 years ago

Great news for Us. Waiting for pro shader 2.

David Von Raesfeld

11 years ago

I'm going to get this, and just use it as a, hobby. (Kids and work prevent it from being anything more for the moment) but I'm pretty sure my gtx 480 is a little out of date. What card would be good, but not break the bank? Thanks!

Mike

11 years ago

Hey Andrew,

Will the AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5 on the new 5K imac work will with V2?

Dr_Stef

11 years ago

Putting it in my calendar which I never use, but for E3D-V2 I will make an exception. Also, I have an old Radeon 5670. Does anyone know a good upgrade that would still fit an 4 year old motherboard
(old Dell Studio XPS, amd PhenomII?) Version 1 always worked well on it, but I have a feeling I need to upgrade, also for other things. I know the new mammoth sized dual gfx card won't fit this machine, so am looking at how can I max out my older machine cheaply enough before I buy a new system.

Chris

11 years ago

FINALLY!!!!! I think I've googled "Element 3D V2 release date?" everyday for almost 2 months hoping to get a hit... Best... Christmas.. EVER!!!

I've been holding off on a project at work simply for the fact that I don't want to do it without Element 3D V2.

I love you

Daniel

11 years ago

All I needed to see was, Unlimited Groups. Coupled with the Motion Design 2 pack, I imagine there will be some awesome creating going on.

Shanmu

11 years ago

Hey Im having a
PROCESSOR :Corei5 4th gen 4440
MOTHERBOARD :ASUS H97 Plus
RAM :8GB DDR-3
HARDDISK : a 500gb one.
Graphics Card :Asus 2gb Nvidia GeForce GT 610
And windows 7,64-bit.

Will this be enough for using element 3d 2.0.Im new to this field, so, please help!
Will element 2.0. wotk smoothly and will all the features of it be available in my pc

Luke

11 years ago

If it helps, the onboard graphics on your processor (HD 4600) is about twice as powerful as the GT 610 card you've got there, so having that card is near pointless. That's a very very cheap entry level card!

shanmu

11 years ago

Oh. Ok. Thanks bro for ur help. I hope element 3d2.0 will work on my pc. Can u guys suggest any powerful graphics card for my pc for best performance?????

CWD

11 years ago

Intel graphics is NOT officially supported.... you can buy a Nvidia GTX series graphics card includes CUDA cores which will give you a nice boost(..ray traced things) when you rendering or working with a project..

Luis Martin

11 years ago

But I think Andrew said Microsoft Graphics Cards (integrated) will not be supported. Check the Element3D V 2.0 Reveal video and the specifications.

Holt

11 years ago

I am using a early 2009 iMac with a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB graphics card. Would Element 3D V2 be able to run on that?

Lars

11 years ago

Andrew once said that you should have at least 512 MB on your card! So you've got about 2 weeks to fix that

Nicolini Media

11 years ago

w 256mb you could make a sphere. i just installed a GTX 970 w 4gb

Lance

11 years ago

Hey Andrew, have I missed the pricing anywhere? I'm in need of purchasing the current version quickly (within a week) for a project, but I'm wondering if the cost + upgrade will be dearer than V2 straight up. I understand if you haven't yet figured out the specifics, but could you please let me know if it's worth buying now plus the upgrade fee, or seeing if I can postpone the project. Cheers!

Lance

11 years ago

I should also say thank you. Phenomenal products. Your kids will proud to look back at what you've created for the industry. =]

Mafelix

11 years ago

Very eager to know prices as want to know how much of the wife's Christmas budget ill need to eat into

Peter

11 years ago

so excited but i would really like to know pricing especially with all of the new games and stuff coming out on nov 18. I need to know what my price range is and how much to reserve for V2
But keep up the good work!!

Gary

11 years ago

Looking forward to the update.
It wold be great to have a new tutorial covering all the bases for E3D2.
At the moment newbies like me have to learn from v1 and then add on new stuff from the various iterations. Having it all up to date in one comprehensive tutorial would be very handy.

Brando

11 years ago

I'm hope there are some Rubber, Foam and more organic shaders in this New Pack!

brady

11 years ago

there should be with the new sub-surface feature

Jamminfoo

11 years ago

You mentioned that the coordinate system and anchor points would be modernized in the new version. Even though projects can vary widely, do you recommend updating to version 2 halfway through a project or finishing with version 1 before updating?

Any chance of being able to have both Version 1 and Version 2 available in After Effects at the same time?

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

I would def not recommend upgrading software in the middle of a project with any software. With that said we have worked hard to keep things working as well as possible and most features open up properly. The more complex the project, in V1, I would be careful opening in V2 if you have deadlines!

Lars

11 years ago

I'd also like to know if it is possible to have V1 and V2 running at the same time so that I can have a saved version of my project with V1 working but also an option to try to convert it to V2 without losing the ability to continue work with V1 if the conversion destroys sth. Could you answer that for us please? Thank you very much for the great effort you put into this!

11 years ago

I'm waiting as patiently as possible... IS IT DONE YET?!... HOW ABOUT NOW?!

Thanks for all the hard work on these products. They've made our lives easier.

IS IT DONE YET?!

zamzx

11 years ago

This is a must buy for any VFX designer. Plus you know it's going towards more tutorials in the future!

Taylor

11 years ago

To me personal one of the biggest draw back of doing 3D in AE is how limited and clunky the 3D workspace is compared to other dedicated 3D programs like C4D. If they are able to help work around this with E3D in any way it would be HUGE. Maybe not on this update... But the next???

Adam Wiesen

11 years ago

Incredibly excited about this release. Element's become a critical tool in my daily workflow, and the updated features are all basically what I've hoped and dreamed of from future iterations.

Richard

11 years ago

still waiting for Alembic...

lucas x

11 years ago

Yep, Christmas gifting element 2 to myself

Carlo

11 years ago

Merry Christmas Everyone what a great gift ,

jonatan hurtado

11 years ago

i love videocopilot !! yeahhh -..

John

11 years ago

Ohmygod! ohmygod! ohmygod!

Now, I'm aware that V2 will "distort" some of your previous object positions if they used custom anchor points and such, but I'm curious if there are any other issues you know of that might crop up when migrating?

illeagle

11 years ago

What video card do you recommend for Mac Pro tower 12 core 64 gigs of ram?
Currently running ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB.

Robert K

11 years ago

Can't wait

It looks awesome. Congratulations again Andrew and VC Team.

If you want to se my new work my friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyMahtaz2M

Daluz

11 years ago

Great news! Just in time for the hollydays! "100+new features" really? Its amazing!

eddie

11 years ago

any chance any of these products will have a black Friday type of discount that you have done in previous years?

Abd -L- Azeez

11 years ago

YOU MADE MY DAY !!!!!!!!!!!
but i was hoping for a price along with it

doesn't matter, whatever the price is !! my money will not exit my wallet fast enough

after this update, i have nothing to ask for!! can't wait !!!!

SHARKOUS

11 years ago

I have seen in the post picture 2 new products ProShaders and MotionDesign
cant imagine what kind of crazy things we can made with that pack
So exited

josh

11 years ago

I have literally been checking this site everyday waiting for the release date!

Anderson

11 years ago

ME TOO!!!

Harlem

11 years ago

Me too (sumtin' like 10 times a day) !! lol

Mitch

11 years ago

As have I

Dane Dap

11 years ago

I'm absolutely hyped up for this. I can't even.

I was thinking a while ago, I know people have been asking to see if there can be some features available in the future (stuff that makes no sense in AE like physics and stuff)
But, I believe this would be that crazy.
Things like Tesselation, Screen space reflections, indirect illumination (the newest one is the Nvidia's VXGUI)

I don't know a lot so I apologize if I sounded stupid.

Zach

11 years ago

Amazing! Can't wait!

HUGH

11 years ago

Great news, I have been waiting for this. I love everything about video copilot and their products. A couple extra weeks might drive people nuts but I am confident it will be worth the wait.

Kevin

11 years ago

Great stuff - can't wait to find out more details of the new features (and of the upgrade prices... will there be a Pro Shader upgrade path too?!)

I appreciate you taking the time you fell is needed to get it right rather than rush it and release something you're not happy with.

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

The Pro Shaders 2 is an entirely new product along with Motion Design 2 so there is no real upgrade path. The new version has 2K textures and a killer variety! We will have discounts for bundles etc.

R-CANE

11 years ago

Yessssssss.....I been looking forward to this fantastic moment.

Fateh

11 years ago

Take your time, and blow our minds, waiting just for the price tag

Nabil

11 years ago

My 780 Ti classified is ready!

Mike

11 years ago

Any news on if there will be a discount for current E3D users? I just got E3D in August! Love it, but would definitely consider upgrading to E3D2 if there was a good sized discount for it

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

We will have a discount for previous owners but remember the plug-in is an entirely new version! We will announce pricing after the next reveal video so people can see the complete feature list and know what is included.

Drew

11 years ago

^ This.

Redo

11 years ago

So there are even more features.. and we've got a specific release date this time! Thanks for the hard work Andrew and the Team. Also thanks for going with PBShaders in V2 !

Harlem

11 years ago

Based on what Andrew says bellow it sounds bad about the pricing for the current users :/ lol (but it must be frankly acknowledged that it seems to be huge in terms of features).

Pacaworks

11 years ago

And, as an appreciative community of of commited endusers, let's not put forth a mighty hew and cry about the price of this new plug. Don't know about the rest of you, but E3DV1 paid for itself in the first project I did, and I, like many of you, use it every day. My work would look like something else entirely, and would probably take twice a long. The new E3D will be a bargain at any price...okay maybe not ANY price, AK...

Kurt

11 years ago

Thanks for the helpful response, Drew. Glad you could clear this up for us.

Josh

11 years ago

Really looking forward to this! Element has been a huge help in my freelance work and short films. Thanks Andrew! http://youtu.be/cXGyDNiVI1w

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